Established risk factors account for most of the racial differences in cardiovascular disease mortality

Reports and discusses the result of a study to examine the risk of dying from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and other heart disease (OHD) among African American (AA), native Hawaiian (NH), Japanese-American (JA), Latino and white men and women initially free from cardiovascular disease followed prospectively between 1993-1996 and 2003 in the Multiethnic Cohort Study (MEC). Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.